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Do you feel alone and feel others don't understand your anxiety

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It feels like there needs to be another word for anxiety on this level.
If anyone needs support regarding anxiety you will be listened to on the community.
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Over the past year and a half, I've spent 95% of my time in my room (I live with 5 other people in a shared house). I see my partners and one friend, sometimes. I've been out late at night to grab food from the corner shop, to taxi to therapy (although I often can't deal and we Skype instead), or with the above-mentioned people (with enormous anxiety). Last week I went to a friend's house! Only a few people I knew well there, and I had to hide in the bathroom multiple times to calm down, but it was really cool! One person said that they'd assumed I'd moved away because they hadn't seen me for so long...
Anxiety (and depression and mobility problems) is bollocks.
I have a communication disability that most so called support professionals choose to ignore, all part of their ignorance and professional negligence (Audiologists, Speech and Language, and Psychologists)
Their medical negligence is the underlying cause of my high blood pressure issues, and the high levels of stress and anxiety all of my family experience. it is not much fun having to educate these frauds.
Thank you for this @dolfrog, being misunderstood is awful and I'm sorry it has led to underlying problems. You're doing a great job at raising awareness!
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My be I should explain that I have the temporal type of Auditory Processing Disorder, a listening disability, more specifically problems processing the gaps between sounds which can include the gaps between words.
This type of Auditory Processing Disorder is also the main underlying cognitive cause of Developmental Dyslexia.
On a bad day I can have problems following conversations, understanding what others are saying and also word recall problems not being able to find the words I need to use when expressing my self to others. Other related issues include having a poor auditory memory, and poor sequencing skills.
The anxiety is caused by the so called medical professionals who should understand and explain these issues to others just fail to do so, and as areult there is only unintentional disability discrimination from the population at large.
In recent times I have become almost completely house bound in order to avoid the stress and anxiety of meeting others who have little or no understanding of my communication disability.
I was the first adult in the UK to be diagnosed as having auditory processing disorder back in 2003, which was partially done so that I could set up and run a UK support organisation to help those diagnosed as having auditory processing disorders when the Medical Research Council ran a 5 year Auditory Processing Disorder research program 2004-2009. Since then all of my family 3 sons, and my wife, also have a clinical diagnosis of having an auditory processing disorder. Which just adds to my stress and anxiety as I feel I have failed to get the support and understanding they need.
I prefer to go down a ramp backwards....others cannot get this...but they dont have my useless body!